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Charles Carver recently launched the iCons website.  iCons is an organizational tool for iPhone apps. 

Have you ever taken time to find applications on a cluttered iPhone or iPod Touch Screen screen? Have you ever wished that there was a way to remember which app’s are where? Well now you can! With iCons, you can organize your iPhone’s/iPod Touch’s screen with a custom image for each select group!

Custom icons are downloadable from the site and allow you to create app screen bookmarks to organize the screens.  Additionally, the bookmarks themselves link to online resources pertaining to each category- clever.

Apple & Nike announced The Human Race 10K today- the world’s largest one-day running event.  On August 31st, 25 host cities will be participating via the Nike+iPod sport kit. 

If you register now, you get a free mix.  (makes me wish I had a nano)

MacNN has uncovered a new job listing: iPhone Security Engineer.  Candidate will: “validate the security architecture for the iPhone,” and have a “major impact on Apple’s embedded operating system products.”

Frankly, I’m surprised they don’t have a whole team of these people already.

[via MacNN]

iPhone Dev Team just released Pwnage tool 2.0.  This lets you Jailbreak (to add unofficial 3rd party applications) the iPhone 2.0 OS.  Supported models include: original iPhone, iPod Touch and iPhone 3G.

SIM unlock (for non-AT&T carriers) works only with original iPhone, but 3G support is coming soon.

Apple has posted the iPhone Enterprise Support Page.  Included is the 58-page iPhone and iPod touch Enterprise Deployment Guide.  Something tells me this is going to get a lot of traffic.

Apple started what promises to be a torrent of news and updates last night with the release of iTunes 7.7, the App Store, MobileMe and an AppleTV update. 

iTunes does have the apps available and I’m ready to load some:

Apple claims more than 500 apps online and there sure are loads in there.

As for MobileMe, apparently it won’t go live until later in the day although some users were able to install it late last night.

Today, Apple announced that the iTunes Store has crossed the five billion song barrier.  These sales figures put the Apple digital download service firmly in the number one music retailer space.  iTunes also features the largest music catalog available with more than eight million songs for purchase.

Apple also revealed that the movie and television segments are doing quite well- now renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies daily,  These figures make iTunes the world’s most popular online movie store.  The video catalog includes more than 20,000 TV episodes and 2,000 films, with approximately 350 in HD.

At long last, iTunes will begin to sell movies same day as the physical DVD release.  With Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate and New Line on board, Apple is clearly aiming for rival Walmart after having recently surpassed them in music sales.

Previously, Apple’s releases have been available 30-45 days later than DVD releases- presumably to avoid sales cannibalization.

Last fall, Starbucks announced a “Song of the Day” promo giving away more than 50 million free songs via iTunes download card.  This event coincided with the Starbucks iPhone/iTunes “Now Playing” service. 

The “Song of the Day” promo ran for more than 30 days in more than 10,000 Starbucks locations.  According to data released by Starbucks today, the promo only saw 6 million songs downloaded- an 8% redemption rate.

I don’t know about you, but I know I had a few cards that I never redeemed- it will be interesting to see how well the next venture fares.

iLounge has posted the a look at iTunes HD Radio tagging.  Very cool… too bad it’s so expensive.

http://ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-itunes-tagging/